Bug#856657: gnome-software: Sometimes claims repo is not active

[Gustavo Kazuhiko Rodrigues Mitamura]

I just ran into the same issue as you did, Gnome-software would tell me
that debian-stable-main wasn't active and it wouldn't enable it. So I
checked my sources.list to see if everything was ok, and then I went
back to gnome-software, clicked on the global menu bar on the top,
sources, and then found out that for some reason, gnome software didn't
have the repos main, contrib, non-free enabled in that configuration
window. I checked everything important in the other tabs as well, let
gnome software update itself, and then I was able to install software
again.

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Bug#856657: gnome-software: Sometimes claims repo is not active

[Donald Pedersen]

This bug is happening to me too on Stretch.  The message reads 
debian-stable-main instead of debian-testing-main.  There's a post on 
the Debian forums about this too.


http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30=135196

Bug#856657: gnome-software: Sometimes claims repo is not active

[Damián Barberón]

This bug is affecting me too.

Other example of non-installable: Dconf Editor

Bug#856657: gnome-software: Sometimes claims repo is not active

[Marcus Lundblad]

Package: gnome-software
Version: 3.22.5-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

For some apps, when I try to install it (on Stretch), I get a dialog claiming
that the repo "debian-testing-main" needs to be activated.
Clicking "Activate and install" brings up a password prompt,
but then I get a dialog showing an error message (from apt I guess)
saying: "E: Could not find the repository"
But some apps install fine.
One thing I noticed, the ones failing seems to indicate "Download size" in the
UI, whereas the working one don't.

Example of non-installable: Milkytracker
Example of installable: Rosegarden

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-software depends on:
ii  appstream0.10.6-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-2+b1
ii  gnome-software-common3.22.5-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas3.22.0-1
ii  libappstream-glib8   0.6.8-1
ii  libatk1.0-0  2.22.0-1
ii  libc62.24-9
ii  libcairo-gobject21.14.8-1
ii  libcairo21.14.8-1
ii  libenchant1c2a   1.6.0-11+b1
ii  libfwupd10.7.4-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-123.22.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0   3.22.8-1
ii  libgtkspell3-3-0 3.0.9-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0   230-3
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0   1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-18   1.1.5-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0   1.40.3-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.3-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-00.105-17
ii  libsecret-1-00.18.5-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-2
ii  libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-2
ii  packagekit   1.1.5-1
ii  software-properties-gtk  0.96.20.2-1

gnome-software recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-software suggests:
pn  fwupd  
ii  gnome-software-plugin-flatpak  3.22.5-1
pn  gnome-software-plugin-limba

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